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UCL’s Adastral Park Postgraduate Campus

UCL’s Adastral Park Postgraduate Campus. Ingemar J. Cox. Outline. Background General objective Management & Governance Present staffing and headcount Future growth objectives Business model, present & projected income streams. Background. Established by BT and UCL in 2001

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UCL’s Adastral Park Postgraduate Campus

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  1. UCL’s Adastral Park Postgraduate Campus Ingemar J. Cox

  2. Outline • Background • General objective • Management & Governance • Present staffing and headcount • Future growth objectives • Business model, present & projected income streams 2

  3. Background • Established by BT and UCL in 2001 • Funding of £3M • First Director John O’Reilley 3

  4. Background • John Midwinter Director 2002-2003 • business plan • Creates a self-sustaining postgraduate teaching and research campus • Secured additional funding • £2M from East of England Development Agency (EEDA) 4

  5. Background • Ingemar Cox • Hired Nov. 2002 • Director Nov. 2003-present 5

  6. General objective 6

  7. General objective • To establish a postgraduate research and teaching facility at Adastral Park • Initial focus is in computer science and electronic engineering 7

  8. General Objectives • Acknowledged world leader in research relevant to the Information and Communications industry • Reinforce the academic research strengths of East Anglia • strengthening the eastern end of the Ipswich/Cambridge corridor • Established M.Sc. teaching programmes • Self-supporting after start-up phase 8

  9. General Objectives • Close collaboration with UCL’s main campus • Close industrial collaboration • Catalyst for industry-industry collaboration by providing a neutral participatory environment for research 9

  10. Management & Governance 10

  11. Management & Governance • Director • Technical Advisory Board • Management Committee 11

  12. Advisory Board Provost Malcolm Grant Management Committee Sir Derek Roberts (Chair) Terry Doyle (Philips) Philip Hargrave (Nortel) Derek McCauley (Intel) Richard Nichol (BT) Martin Sadler (HP) Daphne Silvester (EEDA) Steve Wright (BT) Ingemar Cox Dave Delpy Anthony Finkelstein Hugh Griffiths Yvo Desmedt Fred Stentiford Ingemar Cox Vice-Provost Dave Delpy Brian Riley Dave Delpy Anthony Finkelstein Hugh Griffiths Peter Kirstein Neil Marjoram Yvo Desmedt Chris Pitt Alwyn Seeds Fred Stentiford Head of CS Anthony Finkelstein Director Ingemar Cox Head of EE Hugh Griffiths Systems Admin Neil Marjoram Systems Administrator Neil Marjoram Manager 3 Professors & 8 Lecturers/Sr. Lecturers Brian Riley I.J.Cox Y. Desmedt F. Stentiford A.Lomuscio S. Zhou Secretary Assistant S. Bloomfield R. Hutchinson 11 Res. Assistants + 33 Ph.D. Students 12

  13. Staffing and growth 13

  14. Present staffing • Director • Ingemar J. Cox • Professors • Ingemar Cox • Yvo Desmedt • Fred Stentiford • Senior Lecturer • Alessio Lomuscio • Lecturer • Shi Zhou 14

  15. Present staffing • Manager • Brian Riley • Business Development Manager • Simon Maddison • Secretary • Suzanne Bloomfield • System administrator • Neil Marjoram • Assistant system administrator • Richard Hutchinson 15

  16. Present staffing • Research Fellows • 3 • Interns • 2 • Ph.D. students • 13 Ph.D. students • 10 Eng.D. students 16

  17. Present staffing • Visitors • Visiting Professor • David Nacache, Gemplus • Visiting Research Assistant • (Charles University, Czech Republic) -1 year • Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium - 6 mo. • Visiting Student • Chevening Scholarship - 9 months • Interns - University of Rostock, Germany – 6 mo. 17

  18. Future growth objectives 18

  19. Current recruitment status • Seeking to fill 3 positions at Sr. Lecturer/Lecturer level • Advertised in international journals • IEEE Spectrum • Communications of the ACM • 109 applicants • 10 shortlisted • Interviews expected mid March 2005 19

  20. Business model 20

  21. Business model • Higher Education Funding Council England HEFCE • Teaching income • Research contract and grant income 21

  22. Research themes 22

  23. Research themes • Information security • Cryptography, watermarking, steganography, steganalysis • Information discovery • Content-based image retrieval, text retrieval • Information interaction • Multi-agents, web auctions, relevance feedback • Information modeling • Internet topology, autonomous database construction 23

  24. Research themes • Establishment of a Centre for Information Security Studies (CISS) 24

  25. Motivation • Information security is a critical problem in the future development of information and communications technology • Will remain so for the foreseeable future • Affects • Government • E.g. NHS information initiative, Home Office ID card • Business • E.g. Secure financial processing, e-commerce • Citizens • E.g. Identity theft, privacy, trust 25

  26. Motivation • Scope is very broad, including: • Biometric Identification • Smart Cards • Cryptography • Digital Rights Management • Network Protocols • Data Forensics • Usability & practicability • All need to be effectively integrated 26

  27. Proposal • Create an industry-university research consortium • Funded by industry and other institutions • Research steered by academic/industrial peer-review funding panels • Currently in discussion with BT 27

  28. Postgraduate education 28

  29. Postgraduate education • M.Sc. in Information Security • Beginning Sept. 2005 • http://infosec.adastral.ucl.ac.uk 29

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